Brothers (movie)
Brüder- User score: 6.1
- Production country: Germany
- Producer: Werner Hochbaum
- Production companies: Werner Hochbaum Filmproduktion
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 4/28/1929
- Run time: 78 min.
Movie description
“Brüder”, a film directed by Herr Werner Hochbaum ( who was a remarkable film director in the talkie 30’s ), was one of those films which showed the harsh daily life of the working class. The film depicts, in a kind of fictional documentary, the 1896 Hamburg dockworkers' strike: the workers receive meagre wages for hard work and live under miserable conditions and finally go on strike (to make matters more personal, one of the strikers has a brother who is a policeman). Even though the inspiration for the story was an event that took place in the XIX century, things had little changed by the troublesome twenties so the story had a perfect contemporary ring.
